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SOT To od el etl tain eee OPH NRT Rernengt ne ere emeEeeS. ey ere ee a mt ee ae peer ram» 1 ; She oa 7 / -: HELENA Dear Mr ELLER - > e Hoover? has been started. It is to be 6ne of Foundation for the Blind with which I have worked for twenty-six years. I am indeed happy to inform you rat pfloetan_o. tne. est ia of americ8 1 a 15 WEST 16th STREET, NEW YORK 11, N.Vo->- _—_——— Mr. Lae ...- Mr. NY 3 Me. TEs y Pen, ns - fy eo _ ; xe. Cees --- , 7 baie, Glace .- tere. cran. - p.tte. Werke + _— t tty, Liar o- ““weroh 51, rog9 [eer & ate, ees T | | \ 1 . the departments of the American All that time there has burned within me an unceasing pain because the problems of ch OY he Now t : it to Try to pe Brea poggioag consoletion alone canno happ but the deaf-blind have no substitute for sight or hearing. The keenest touch cannot breek their immobility. More than any other physically fet- tered group, they need right teaching and constructive procedures to reclaim them to normal society. v ef Fp. Lj ie. B- t there is § Conmittee to study thei the doubly handicapped remain for the most part unsolved, attempt after another in a behalf. Te and I have made r needs, I em writing to you because offers a wonderful opportunity for your noble impulses -- effective aid the most appealing and loneliest group of human beings on earth. They are widely scattered over a vest: continent, and it will require careful study and patient search if they are to be properly served. {magine, if you can, the anguish and horror you would experience bowed down by the twofold weight of blindnes emerging from en utter {solation! Sti and desires, you would feel through the sense of touch the existence of a living world, and desperately but vainly you would seek an escape into its EN cLost Re ing, Ateoth {08 5 a your pleasures would vanish in a dreadful monotony of silent days. Even if even the most imaginative and tender normal people can realize the culiar cruelty of such @ situation. {ly in a world of sounds, and the 411 you not, dear friend, give some though the Deaf-blind, so that more of those who cannot see and hear may regain life’s goodness and the dignity of use support of this work, where s0 much ne / Trus / ly s and deafness, with no hope of ll throbbing with natural emotions would be lost to you. Family and friends might surround you with love, put t restore usefulness, or bring release from. that Nal hardest prison -~- & tomd of tie mind and @ dungeon of. the pod yes 9 & cow HV work, man's Divine heritage -- work that can bind up broken hearts -- ae Ne! The blind who are taught can live deaf use their eyes instead of ears, t to the Helen Keller Committee on ful work? I plead for your financial | eds to be accomplished. ; RECORDED - 42 tingly and versie oauge? 5/3 ~ 6 INDEXED - 42 “yer wt